Issue 198: Why do multi-starts all have to have identical correlation sets?

["Tony Fletcher" <tony_fletcher@btopenworld.com>]

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Issue 198: Why do multi-starts all have to have identical correlation sets?

Status: received
Date added: 12 Mar 2005
Categories: Correlation
Date submitted: 11 March 2005
Submitter: Yaron Y. Goland
Description: Section 6.5 requires that if a process has multiple start activities then all the start activities MUST use the same correlation sets. Why? I can understand the requirement that all start activities MUST share at least one common correlation set, this is needed for rendezvous. But why should all the correlation sets have to be identical?

In fact, given that when there are multiple start activities this means it's likely that the messages received will be of different types and given that those different types will have different properties defined on them wouldn't it be the common case that a multi-start process would need to have different correlation sets on the different start activities? :Submitter’s proposal: We change the language in 6.5 to require that if a process has multiple start activities then all those activities MUST share at least one common correlation set.
Changes: 12 Mar 2005 - new issue

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